alyssa farrell

This past year, we felt dangerously out of control. Not like roller coaster feelings of exhilaration: Tightly gripping the seat for a...

Imagine the zigzagging line on a heart rate monitor, zipping up and down like lighting. This jagged course looks like a rugged...

I keep running into Psalm 139:23a and the words create a havoc of images in my mind: "Search me, O God, and know my heart" (ESV). The...

The past month has been a whirl. From waving farewell to Fiji and entering back into life in American, to packing up for college and...

Right now I’m on a journey—I’m flying to the Fiji Islands in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean. It sounds somewhat glamorous: the...

"[L]et us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth” (1 John 3:18). When it comes to being straightforward about showing love,...

Hello, I am a perfectionist. I frequently chase after perfection, and I let my performance define me. Obviously this is quite a letdown,...

Sometimes, I can’t fall asleep at night. When I pray for rest, but all my body feels is tight from the strain of not meeting exhausting...